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\u2026do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. \u2014Matthew 6:25<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-sharing-button\">Jesus summed up commonsense carefulness in the life of a disciple as <em>unbelief<\/em>. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will squeeze right through our lives, as if to ask, \u201cNow where do I come into this relationship, this vacation you have planned, or these new books you want to read?\u201d And He always presses the point until we learn to make Him our first consideration. Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>\u201c\u2026do not worry about your life\u2026.\u201d Don\u2019t take the pressure of your provision upon yourself. It is not only wrong to worry, it is unbelief; worrying means we do not believe that God can look after the practical details of our lives, and it is never anything but those details that worry us. Have you ever noticed what Jesus said would choke the Word He puts in us? Is it the devil? No\u2014 \u201cthe cares of this world\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+13:22\">Matthew 13:22<\/a>). It is always our little worries. We say, \u201cI will not trust when I cannot see\u201d\u2014 and that is where unbelief begins. The only cure for unbelief is obedience to the Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is <em>abandon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>May 23, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Journal Entry for today-JDV<\/p>\n<p>Good morning God and thank You for this devotional today. This is one of my favorites. Here Chambers reminds us that the \u201clittle things\u201d are what get in the way of our walk with Jesus and our connection to His peace. He reminds us that we often leave You out of our planning the \u201clittle things\u201d like a vacation or books we are going to read, maybe even the television shows we watch. Although I am convinced that when we are connected, You guide us in these things without any requirement for us to look for a PG rating, or \u201cplain vanilla\u201d music, or vacations that include some missionary activity. You simply take away our use for anything that is not connected to You\u2026when we are surrendered and connected.<\/p>\n<p>But somehow many of us have taken \u201cworry\u201d to a high art and believe if we are to be \u201cgood mothers\u201d or \u201cgood fathers\u201d or even good friends, we are to worry about those individuals we believe are in our realm of care. This, I believe You are teaching us, is unbelief. 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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-sharing-button\">Jesus summed up commonsense carefulness in the life of a disciple as <em>unbelief<\/em>. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will squeeze right through our lives, as if to ask, \u201cNow where do I come into this relationship, this vacation you have planned, or these new books you want to read?\u201d And He always presses the point until we learn to make Him our first consideration. Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>\u201c\u2026do not worry about your life\u2026.\u201d Don\u2019t take the pressure of your provision upon yourself. It is not only wrong to worry, it is unbelief; worrying means we do not believe that God can look after the practical details of our lives, and it is never anything but those details that worry us. Have you ever noticed what Jesus said would choke the Word He puts in us? Is it the devil? No\u2014 \u201cthe cares of this world\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+13:22\">Matthew 13:22<\/a>). It is always our little worries. We say, \u201cI will not trust when I cannot see\u201d\u2014 and that is where unbelief begins. The only cure for unbelief is obedience to the Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is <em>abandon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>May 23, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Journal Entry for today-JDV<\/p>\n<p>Good morning God and thank You for this devotional today. This is one of my favorites. Here Chambers reminds us that the \u201clittle things\u201d are what get in the way of our walk with Jesus and our connection to His peace. He reminds us that we often leave You out of our planning the \u201clittle things\u201d like a vacation or books we are going to read, maybe even the television shows we watch. 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